- -: Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
December 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source o...
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- -: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
February 20, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 205...
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- -: Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
March 29, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- an...
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- -: Authors@Google: Joseph Cirincione
March 17, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Joseph Cirincione is the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution, a role in which he has served since March 2008. Cirincione had previously served as vice president for national security and international poli...
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- -: The Use of Nuclear Explosives To Disrupt or Divert Asteroids
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 23, 2007 ABSTRACT Nuclear explosives are a mature technology with well-characterized effects. Proposed utilizations include a near asteroid burst to ablate surface material and nudge the body to a safer orbit, or a direct sub-surface burst to fragment the body. For this...
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- -: Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion...
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- -: Soaring, Cryptography and Nuclear Weapons
May 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 7, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Martin Hellman Nuclear weapons are the elephant in the room that almost no one talks about. This presentation therefore approaches the subject from the much less threatening -- actually downright attractive -- perspective of soaring. Risk anal...
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- -: Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Prob
May 27, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 26, 2009 Presented by Robert Hargraves. Mankind's fossil fuel burning releases CO2 into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and deadly air pollution. Natural resources are rapidly being depleted by world population growth. Safe, inexpensive energy from the liqu...
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- -: Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
July 23, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Kirk Sorensen's Tech Talk, delivered at Google on July 20, 2009. Successfully developing a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) would essentially solve our planets energy problems for thousands of years, because it would allow us to fully utilize the energy in natural thorium, which makes up 0...
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- -: Mahmoud Ahadinejad Talks with Charlie Rose
September 28, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about the nuclear issue.
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